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Physics Colloquium: Bose-Einstein Condensates in Space!
Start Date: 5/15/2014Start Time: 3:30 PM
End Date: 5/15/2014End Time: 4:30 PM

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, PhD, MLK Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT

 

What constitutes the dark matter? As the hunt for a direct detection continues, theories abound. An intriguing proposal is due to Sikivie & Yang, who suggest that the dark matter is made up of a hypothetical particle called the axion, and in their picture the axionic dark matter forms an exotic type of gas known as a Bose-Einstein condensate. In this talk, I will discuss efforts to understand the Sikivie-Yang proposal, one of which spurred the development of a new framework for studying the Hamiltonian dynamics of gauge theories in curved spaces.

Contact Information:
Name: Assistant Professor Michelle Dolinski
Email: dolinski@physics.drexel.edu
Location:
Disque Hall 919, 32 South 32nd Street Philadelphia, PA 19104
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